Shadova-Šeduva was an agricultural town dealing in
cereals, flax and linseed, pigs and geese and horses, at the site of a royal
estate and beside a road from Kaunas to Riga. The population from the fifteenth
century was Catholic and Jewish. Until then, Lithuania had been the last pagan
kingdom in Europe and allowed freedom of worship and toleration of Jews and
other religions.[1] The first Catholic shine of Šeduva, the Church
of the Invention of the Holy Cross, was built and the parish founded between
1512 and 1529. The present brick church Cross was built in Šeduva in 1643
